Just finished the second book authored by clinical psychologist Dr. Lisa Damour. Complementing and extending her prior book, “Untangled,” her most recent book, “The Emotional Lives Of Teenagers” combats the prevalent myths that (1) emotion is the enemy of reason, (2) difficult emotions are bad and should be avoided at all cost, and (3) their amped-up emotions make teens psychologically fragile. Instead, this book provides a detailed and illustrative discussion of how we as parents could support our teenagers to understand and manage their emotions to become capable and compassionate adults.
And for all of us it contains the important reminder that: “Mental health is not about feeling good. Instead, it’s about having the right feelings at the right time and being able to manage those feelings effectively.”
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